Retroactively justify them, yes. Anyway, even if she finds nothing she can always just fall back to the standard "You weren't/were doing something that I needed, therefore I had no choice but to cheat." justification.

There was room for holodeck episodes but there were entirely to many of them. It started to seem like this dangerous piece of equipment that was somehow repeatedly able to go haywire and fuck up the whole ship. And there were only one or two episodes that really touched upon the effect an infinite fantasy world would have on people and what they would do in there so it felt like they missed the mark in favor of using it as an excuse to have the cast dress up in period clothing all the time.

Anyone else think the point was to use the windows brand name to trick the uninitiated into buying it and then leaving them trapped inside the walled garden they created for all their software going forward?

The sad part is that actually may have worked if they'd let the thing join domains and gave it a full blown office version. As it stands its just that new tablet that doesn't have any apps. Apple makes a tablet that has lots of apps right?

I'm not sure why anyone would really hate this movie though. It was a perfectly respectable sequel. It wasn't as good as the first one but it was still pretty good. Not every movie can be Empire Strikes Back.

I think terrible might be an overstatement on this one, I didn't hate it or anything. But it started out like it was going to be a cerebral kind of movie with a point and you wanted in on the mystery...and then all of a sudden it was just a standard action movie. I've seen that happen with plenty of other movies.

Though I initially kind of liked ironically and because its sound track is so awesome...but now I've noticed if I can just "let it go" when it comes to the made up jargon and ridiculous magic hacking scenes the movie is actually pretty good and at the very least loaded with charm and style.

Yeah, Antitrust was about a pseudo Microsoft like software company that was really up to no good. I actually liked the movie quite a bit and it has some of my favorite hot brunettes as the female leads so that helps.

Not super weird really. I've heard some people say Quake has aged well but I always thought it looked pretty crappy compared to sprite based engines of the time like all the build engine games. There was a cutover in the early 3D acceleration days where the polygon budget was so low in order to remain playable on hardware available at the time that things just looked worse than the use of a decent res sprite. Smart use of textures can make a low poly model looks pretty great but if you looked at the wireframes of models of some of these games you'd probably think it wasn't possible to shave anymore polygons off without cutting off limbs.

True 3D was in it's infancy here and the 2.5d games were at their pinnacle though. With a few more polygons on newer hardware the advantage slipped away.

How can you know you don't like being sodomized while driving until you try it? And after the recall they made the sodomizer self lubricating so the people complaining about anal perforation don't even know what they're talking about these days.

We have a roundabout that is just like that about a mile from my work. Well, except that they put a park in the center (because people love to be surrounded by exhaust fumes in the park) and one of the lanes only exists for half the roundabout. Obviously there are traffic lights inside the roundabout like this image to facilitate crosswalks to get to the park. It goes without saying that no one knows how to use roundabouts around here, blowing through yields signs and occasionally somehow entering them going the wrong direction. In their defense its obvious the civil planners don't know how they are suppose to work either though.

Clothing is insanely marked up. People get excited about a 20% off sale on something that is marked up 500% and made by slaves.

That's the annoying thing about "globalization". They say "Its good for you, you'll lose your job but at least you get cheap shit!" but the last part isn't even entirely true. Region encoded DVDs and video games for instance.

IIRC there was a lobbying effort to get Mexico designated as part of the America based on the premise that its in North America so Ford or Chrysler could build cars there and slap made on America on them.

I don't think it passed but there are plenty of schemes that do work like building something elsewhere, shipping it in and having two bolts put on so you can slam "assembled in the USA" on the thing.

When people suggest buying US only products I feel like saying "How?" I have a full time job, I frankly don't have time to research which labels are lies for which products and how much is actually built here versus what the label suggests.

My dad worked with a guy who (among other things) used to buy a cheap pack of t-shirts, wear one for a week and then throw it away. In his defense he didn't have a washing machine on account of the fact he lived in an old school bus and those rarely have washer/dryer hookups.